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Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Workshop: Conferences 

Benjamin Harshav's Theories of Metaphor: With Examples from the Bible

Biblical Studies Research Seminar

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, Preface, Introduction, ch. 1 ‘Body, Race, and Being’                                 You may also like to watch this video lecture by Prof. Copeland from 2016.

CEMS research seminar: Dr Mirjam Hähnle

‘Urban Nature in City Utopias 1600-1750’ Mirjam Hähnle is a researcher at the German Historical Institute which she joined in April 2022. She is interested in early modern concepts of human-environment relations and debates about writing history in times of climate crisis. After studying History and German Studies in Freiburg (Germany), she...

Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation

Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation Dr Mhairi Maxwell (Curator, National Museums of Scotland) in conversation with Dr Cecilia Brioni (Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen) 

Art History Research Seminar: Rebecca Mellor

This event was cancelled

Rebecca Mellor (Science Museum): "Seeing Things Queerly" Rebecca Mellor is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum, London. Her research focuses on classical reception, sexual history in visual arts, digital humanities, and museum censorship. She is the founder and chair of the Science Museum Group's Gender & Sexuality...

Biblical Studies Research Seminar

Dr Madison Pierce (Western Theological Seminary)

Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual deficit : Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge)

Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge) is a well-known British political theologian who will be in Aberdeen this coming Wednesday 22 January at 2-3.30 in the Court Room to present a paper on the role of Christian nationalism in undermining Christian support for democracy. In more detail: Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual...

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Five

A panel featuring Michael Brown on 'The 1707 Union as an Act of Revolution', Clare Loughlin on 'Highland policy in Church and State after 1715', Brad Bow on 'Rethinking the Aberdeen Wise Club', and Sarah Sharp on 'Blackwood's Tory vision of Cultural Nationalism’, representing the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 12

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